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benchpress

benchpress is the alternative spelling of bench press.

Meaning of bench press

Noun

bench press (plural bench presses)

  1. An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
    • ...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 18

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Forms of benchpress

pluralbenchpresses

Questions about benchpress

What is benchpress the alternative spelling of?
Benchpress is the alternative spelling of bench press.

Words near benchpress in the dictionary

  1. benchmaxxed
  2. benchmaxxes
  3. benchmaxxing
  4. benchmen
  5. benchod
  6. benchpress
  7. benchpresses
  8. benchrest
  9. benchrest rifle
  10. benchrest rifles
  11. benchrester

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